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Brian Sternberg (June 21, 1943 – May 23, 2013) [2] was a world record holder in the men's pole vault who was paralyzed from the neck down after a trampoline accident in 1963. Sternberg set one of his world records on May 25, 1963, in Modesto, California jumping 16 feet 7 inches (5.05 m) using new technology for the sport, a fiberglass pole.
Pole dance has become pole sports; the International Pole Sports Federation was founded in 2008, [5] with national federations, competitive teams, formalized rules and a code of points. Poling tricks have multiplied as the pole community has developed and shared new techniques.
A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Pennel started pole vaulting at his father's farm with an old television aerial.At Coral Gables Senior High School, where he was a member of both the gymnastics and the track and field teams, he cleared 11 feet 3 inches (3.43 m) at the age of 15.
In the 1972 Summer Olympics, a last-minute ruling barred the new banana-Pole from Olympic competition, forcing some vaulters, including Seagren, to compete with unfamiliar poles. East German Wolfgang Nordwig didn't use a Cata-Pole and won the gold medal, with Seagren coming second. It was the first time an American had failed to win the Olympic ...
Allison Rebecca Stokke Fowler (born March 22, 1989) [1] is an American track and field athlete and fitness model.She broke a number of American records for high school pole vaulting.
Let’s say the trick is a double cork 1080. 720 degrees are used for the two flip rotations, since it is a double, and the remaining 360 are used for a twist. You are allowed to put the twist anywhere you want in the double flip, which means in trampoline terms a double cork 1080 could be an off axis full in, full out or half half. Now for the ...
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